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Do We Really Need Another Political Party?
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Email it to sandiego@ivn.usBernie Sanders’ loss of the Democratic Party’s nomination for president prompted some voters to cry out, as they have i ...
17 Dec, 2020
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National Reform Leaders Lay Out the Future of Better Elections for 2021 and Beyond
US voters and reform practitioners had an opportunity over the weekend to wrap up 2020 celebrating the success of historic proposals for better elections and discuss future endeavors to give the Ameri ...
14 Dec, 2020
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8 min read
To Fight Depression, San Diego Educator Offers Unique Program
Before Social and Emotional Learning became widely recognized as a critical component of teen lives, Marisa Fogelman was well ahead of the curve. Fogelman spent two decades developing a curriculu ...
14 Dec, 2020
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Is Proportional Representation the Future of Political Reform?
Momentum continues to build for broad systemic changes to how US citizens elect their public officials. Reforms like ranked choice voting and nonpartisan primaries are growing in popularity as voters ...
09 Dec, 2020
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San Diego Democrats Promised a Progressive Future — We Will Hold Them Accountable to It
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Email it to hoa@ivn.usThe year of 2020 has been one of the most challenging in recent memory. While our society was, and continues to be, devastat ...
08 Dec, 2020
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4 min read
Abolishing The Electoral College Could Have Many Unintended Consequences
It’s been a month since Election Day, and we still don’t know who won the 2020 election! While it’s looking more and more clear every day that Joe Biden will be inaugurated in January, Donald Trump ha ...
07 Dec, 2020
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14 min read
Can Gavin Newsom Use the Pandemic to Beat Back Homelessness?
If $800 million wasn’t a sufficiently appetizing carrot to get his audience to buy more motels, Gov. Gavin Newsom could dangle a more spiritual enticement: less time burning in the afterlife. At ...
02 Dec, 2020
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13 min read
Despite Reform Gains, Partisan Interests Still Largely Control Redistricting Process
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Next year's redistricting landscape is, at best, a mixed bag for good ...
24 Nov, 2020
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8 min read
Trump Is Right About Rigged Elections, But Maybe Not The Way You Think
The 2016 election seems like a distant memory from a lifetime ago. But 2020 isn't really qualitatively different, just more of what 2016 was. We're seeing that wild year's ghosts of partisanship in ov ...
23 Nov, 2020
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7 min read
Not Dire, For Now: California Expects $26 Billion Windfall Despite Pandemic
The good news: The recession California officials predicted in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic has not been as dire as they thought it would be, leaving the state with a $26 billion windf ...
19 Nov, 2020
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4 min read